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By SHIRLEY JINKINS EVERMAN - Danny Perez's eyes opened wide in surprise as soon as his new glasses were perched on his nose.'This looks blurry,' said the Townley Elementary fourth-grader as he removed and then replaced them.

Arlington school administrators didn't wait until Tuesday's election to start mapping out how they would spend $197.5 million in bond money.

A growing colony of South American parrots has drawn curious bird watchers to the little town of Everman.

David Casstevens' Oct. 6 story tells of work to restore a dinosaur, Paluxysaurus jonesi , that will soon have its place in the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.

Fort Worth police are investigating a substitute teacher for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old Everman Junior High School student.

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By JESSAMY BROWN and TRACI SHURLEY Time's up.At the start of the school year, kindergartners and seventh-graders were given a six-week extension on required immunizations because some providers ran out of certain vaccines during the summer.

The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, started toying with the idea of powered flight in 1899 after writing to the Smithsonian Institution requesting information about flight experiments.

Willie Thomas, 65, a retiree living in southeast Fort Worth, finally grew tired of waiting for his lease bonus check from Glencrest Resources, the company that leased his property in November 2006 for drilling in the then-red-hot Barnett Shale natural gas play in North Texas.

Students in Denton, Crowley, Burleson, and Everman all started a new school year on Tuesday.

By EVA-MARIE AYALA Twenty Fort Worth schools are spending nearly $700,000 on overnight staff retreats - many at luxury hotels and posh resorts in North Texas - despite warnings from state officials that staying at such places can appear excessive to taxpayers.The retreats, funded by federal tax dollars, are intended to help teachers improve ...

By TRACI SHURLEY When Sondra Thomas was named principal of Mansfield's Annette Perry Elementary School, she thought she'd be opening the new school today.

By EVA-MARIE AYALA Texas spends an average of $7,818 per student - the seventh-least amount of all states - according to a census report released Monday.The report, based on 2007 data, also shows that the state had the largest outstanding debt for education purposes, at $50.7 billion.DeEtta Culbertson, a spokeswoman for the Texas Education ...

By ANTHONY SPANGLER FORT WORTH - Tarrant County's net taxable property values increased the smallest amount in 15 years, igniting concern among many local government officials as they prepare their budgets for next year.The data released Monday shows a 2 percent increase in the net taxable value, compared with year-after-year increases ranging ...

By SHIRLEY JINKINS Trustees of cash-strapped Texas school districts are being forced by budget deficits to consider the thorny issue of rescinding a local-option homestead exemption that some of them granted to homeowners during easier times.Across Texas more than 200 districts grant the extra exemption - as high as 20 percent of the residential ...

By TRACI SHURLEY  A $3.2 million state grant will help the Arlington school district expand its pre-kindergarten program into several city child-care centers this fall and boost revenue for the cash-strapped district.The funding comes from the Prekindergarten Early Start Grant Program administered by the Texas Education Agency.Arlington ...

Dr. Darlene Callender, who has overseen Cleburne ISD's department of curriculum and instruction since August, has been given a new title of assistant superintendent of special programs.

While Monday is a holiday for most Americans, some North Texas students had to wake up early and head to school.

Janet Walker, Cleburne ISD's executive director of curriculum and instruction and student support, has submitted her resignation to accept the position of director of federal and state program compliance with Everman ISD.

By ANTHONY SPANGLER  FORT WORTH - Despite a downturn in the economy, taxable property values rose 4.6 percent in Tarrant County in 2008, slightly above expectations but still about half of previous years' increases, according to preliminary figures released Friday by the Tarrant Appraisal District.The county's overall market value rose 4.1 ...